Announcing the Content Performance program

2015-06-26 Thread Vladan D
Aaron Klotz, Avi Halachmi and I have been studying Firefox's performance on Android Windows over the last few weeks as part of an effort to evaluate Firefox content performance and find actionable issues. We're analyzing and measuring how well Firefox scrolls pages, loads sites, and navigates

Shutdown hangs are very common

2015-07-06 Thread Vladan D
Background: Firefox shutdown hangs are turned into shutdown crashes by a watchdog thread [1] that forces a crash if shutdown hasn't completed within 1 minute. Thanks to the watchdog and the Windows profile unlocker [2], shutdown hangs aren't as frustrating as they used to be. However, shutdown

Re: Shutdown hangs are very common

2015-07-06 Thread Vladan D
KaiRo pointed out another reason to reduce shutdown hang rates on IRC: it's lousy UX. The crash-reporter dialog pops up a minute after the user closed Firefox On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 4:37:41 PM UTC-4, RyanVM wrote: On 7/6/2015 4:34 PM, Vladan D wrote: Background: Firefox shutdown hangs

Re: Shutdown hangs are very common

2015-07-06 Thread Vladan D
On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 5:00:36 PM UTC-4, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: On 06/07/15 22:48, Vladan D wrote: KaiRo pointed out another reason to reduce shutdown hang rates on IRC: it's lousy UX. The crash-reporter dialog pops up a minute after the user closed Firefox That's bug

Re: Announcing the Content Performance program

2015-06-28 Thread Vladan D
On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 4:09:18 PM UTC-4, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: Actually, I was just thinking about introducing a priority-to-60fps mode, activated e.g. while the user is scrolling the foreground tab, or perhaps during animations in the foreground tab. Whenever we are running

Re: Overview of what you can do with Telemetry

2015-08-10 Thread Vladan D
Correction: the presentation is tomorrow, Tuesday August 11th (not the 10th) On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 5:25:33 PM UTC-4, Vladan D wrote: Hi all, On Tuesday August 10th, Anthony Zhang will do a brief end-of-internship presentation showing how you can answer your questions with Telemetry

Re: New policy: 48-hour backouts for major Talos regressions

2015-08-14 Thread Vladan D
Tests are reliable if they detect regressions, aren't very noisy, and if they measure things that have a real impact on actual Firefox user experience. We're using past experience with the tests to determine which ones meet this criteria. On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 5:45:35 PM UTC-4,

Re: New Telemetry dashboards!

2015-07-07 Thread Vladan D
CloudFront was serving stale data, it's fixed now. Give it another try? On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 3:06:45 PM UTC-4, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 7/7/15 2:26 PM, Vladan Djeric wrote: Let us know if you find bugs, notice missing functionality, or if anything is ambiguous or counter-intuitive.

Re: E10S performance & stability metrics (January 2016 edition)

2016-01-19 Thread Vladan D
> Unfortunately, the BHR Telemetry data from both Aurora 43 & Beta 44 > experiments suggests that e10s is jankier than non-e10s. This holds true > for profiles with & without extensions. > > However, we have identified bugs causing inaccuracies in BHR reporting and > we are working to imporve BHR